Emails

Marketing With Gabe Barrett Of The Board Game Design Lab

Board Gaming, Community Growth, Emails, Pre-marketing

The Crowdfunding Nerds are joined by Gabe Barrett of the Board Game Design Lab this week. They discuss email lead generation through cold calling, how to engage a Facebook group community, and more!

How To Market Your Kickstarter With Little To No Money

Behind the Business, Emails, Facebook Ads, Pre-marketing

Have you ever wondered how to market your boardgame if you have an extremely limited marketing budget? Well, Andrew, SEO Wizard Rick and Sexy Irish Sean give you some top tips to help you on your crowdfunding journey! They discuss some of the worst marketing advice they have ever received and explain how to do self-promotion in Facebook groups.

A First-Hand Organic Kickstarter Pre-Marketing Case Study

Audience, Board Gaming, Case Study, Crowdfunding Nerds, Emails, Pre-marketing

On this episode of Crowdfunding Nerds Andrew describes everything that he discovered about board game marketing when creating his board game Deliverance!

The Virtuous Cycle Of Kickstarter Marketing

Audience, Behind the Business, Community Growth, Emails, Facebook Ads, Landing Page

The Crowdfunding Nerds cover the most important element of Kickstarter marketing, the Virtuous Cycle and automation.

Board Game Landing Pages 101: How To Build A Landing Page For Your Board Game

Board Gaming, Emails, Landing Page, Pre-marketing

Everything you need to know to build a landing page that intrigues, captures, and delights email leads for your upcoming board game launch!

Building Hype With Emails For Kickstarter

Audience, Emails

The nerds discuss how to optimise your emails for Gamil, segment your leads by open rate and craft emails that engage your community for Kickstarter!

How Deliverance Raised $39,000 On Kickstarter in 8 Minutes

Audience, Behind the Business, Case Study, Crowdfunding Campaign, Emails

Andrew has been developing Deliverance for 5 years and has finally launched on Kickstater! Having raised $39,000 in 8 minutes he explains how he got to this point.

5 Profitable Things You Can Do During Your Kickstarter Mid-Campaign Slump

Behind the Business, Crowdfunding Campaign, Emails

Andrew had the privilege of writing an article for Jamey Stegmaier on how to boost the number of pledges during your mid-campaign slump on Kickstarter. The nerds go into further details.

Reflections After A Successful Kickstarter – What Worked Best

Crowdfunding Campaign, Emails, Facebook Ads

Andrew discusses the various successes and challenges he faced during his Deliverance Kickstarter campaign. As well as the Crowdfunding nerds talk about iOS 14 and the issues its causing.

Major Kickstarter Mistakes You Need To Learn From

Audience, Community Growth, Crowdfunding Campaign, Emails

On this weeks episode the Crowdfunding Nerds go over some real life blunders Kickstarter hopefuls have fallen prey to.

Facebook Ad & Convention ROI For Kickstarter

Audience, Community Growth, Conventions, Emails, Facebook Ads, Pre-marketing

Andrew explores the return on investment from his various pre-marketing efforts for Kickstarter and how it impacted his campaign's success.

The Sunk Cost Fallacy And How To Craft A Welcome Email

Audience, Behind the Business, Community Growth, Emails, Facebook Ads

In this episode, the Crowdfunding Nerds discuss the sunk cost fallacy and how it relates to Kickstarter marketing, as well as giving tips on how to craft an effective welcome email!

5 Areas of Your Kickstarter Business You Should Be Focusing On

Audience, Community Growth, Crowdfunding Campaign, Emails, Facebook Ads, Landing Page, Pre-marketing

The Crowdfunding Nerds dive into 5 things that every successful business needs to focus on.

4 Absolutely Essential Things You Need To Know About Sending Board Game Emails

Audience, Emails

The Crowdfunding Nerds start the new year off by chopping email marketing! Everything you need to know when crafting your board game emails!

Listen To Joe Slack Before Launching Your Second Kickstarter

Audience, Crowdfunding Campaign, Emails

The Crowdfunding Nerds continue their discussion with Joe Slack on how to transition from your a successful Kickstarter campaign to another project.

Listen To This Podcast Before Launching On Kickstarter

Crowdfunding Campaign, Distribution & Fulfilment, Emails

The Crowdfunding Nerds discuss the ultimate checklist of things to do and not do before launching your game on Kickstarter.

How To Run A Board Game Booth At A Convention

Audience, Community Growth, Conventions, Emails

The Crowdfunding Nerds give you some convention tips to promote your tabletop project with our without a booth!

The Science Of Pricing Your Crowdfunding Pledges

Behind the Business, Community Growth, Crowdfunding Campaign, Distribution & Fulfilment, Emails, Facebook Ads, Landing Page

Jasper Gardener Burch of Pine Island Games and the tabletop game Nut Hunt joins the Crowdfunding Nerds to discuss Facebook advertising mistakes and the science of correctly pricing your pledges on Kickstarter!

Email Open Rates For Kickstarter

Audience, Behind the Business, Emails

The Crowdfunding Nerds discuss the ideal email open rates that show your community is engaged while sharing tips to improve them.

Shelfside’s List Of Things You Need For Board Game Influencers

Audience, Behind the Business, Community Growth, Emails

Ashton of Shelfside fame joins the Crowdfunding Nerds to talk about reaching out to Board Game influencers.

How To Estimate The Results of Your Crowdfunding Event Before You Launch

Behind the Business, Crowdfunding Campaign, Emails

Keven reached out to the Crowdfunding Nerds with a questions on how to work out his potential revenue from running a crowdfunding event.

Diagnosing Underperforming Crowdfunding Campaigns With Marco Pecota

Behind the Business, Case Study, Ecommerce, Emails

Marco Pecota of Raybox Games joins the Crowdfunding Nerds to discuss the underperformance of a crowdfunding campaign with a proven IP.

BoardGameGeek Advertising – Everything You Need To Know

Emails, Pre-marketing

The advertising manager of BoardGameGeek (BGG) Chad Krizan joins the Crowdfunding Nerds to talk about all the options available to publishers seeking to promote their games on their site and in their emails.

Andrew & Sean React! Episodes 6-10 Revisited

Audience, Behind the Business, Board Gaming, Community Growth, Crowdfunding Nerds, Ecommerce, Emails, Facebook Ads, Personal Growth, Pre-marketing

Welcome, crowdfunding enthusiasts! I'm your host, Andrew, joined by my co-host Sean, for Episode 152 of the Crowdfunding Nerds podcast.

Trying Hard and Failing

Audience, Emails, Personal Growth

In episode 180 of Crowdfunding Nerds, Andrew and Sean unpack a rollercoaster of a story: the Golden Geek Awards campaign for the board game Deliverance.